a fragile truce between israel and hamas appears to be holding up to one of the bloodiest days of protests in gaza in four years. and i want to dream for again this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up rebels and the families of the southwest of syria head north after striking a surrender deal with the assoc of. wasting away tons of plastic daybreak cause an environmental disaster in the dominican republic. and the scorching heat wave in sweden the worst drought in seventy is blamed for helping to spread wildfires and cause farm animals to starve.

what's being called a restoration of calm seems to be holding so far between israel and hamas in gaza following the killing of an israeli soldier along the border and is israeli airstrikes that killed four palestinians at least one hundred twenty gazans were wounded in the seventeenth successive week of friday protests israel had warned protestors of retaliation if they continue to set crops alight by sending burning balloons and kites over the fence several hamas positions were attacked in around gaza city a mass argues that the balloons are a peaceful form of protest at the blockade of gaza hamas says the truce brokered by egypt and the u.n. began at midnight local time one hour from charles stratford who's on the israel gaza border. these men say it's their duty. palestinians to protest against

israel's occupation. they put together their kite clipping its tail which they say will keep it balance as it carries the burning cloth over gaza's border fence they soak the sackcloth in petrol and oil because they say it helps it slowly through jamestown are their land we are here to prove to the whole world that we will never leave the island we're going to do with burning kites was that occupied land and i'm not afraid of the israelis i'm only afraid of. sits close by but he has come to support the protesters. i must say the kites and balloons to carry the burning rags into israel are a peaceful form of protest israeli snipers have been targeting balloons that the protesters have been launching well behind the main demonstration these protesters say they will continue launching that kites holding those incendiary devices until israel lifts the siege. the men like the rock and the kite drifts all too and now

it's the build a fence israel says five started by protesters have destroyed large areas of crops and private planned. protest to set fire to tires which they uses color from his radio on the snipers positioned along the fence. is ready tanks talk to hamas positions along the border often news that an israeli soldier had been injured these radio me later reported that the soldier had died from his wounds in the protesters climbed the walls of a building being used by the israeli soldiers. the army responded with tear gas a mold sounded like live ammunition. an israeli drone flew overhead one hundred forty protestors have been killed since the weekly demonstrations started four months ago the israeli army shot this man in the leg during a protest in april on the budget itself that i left by sending

a message to the occupiers that this is our land and you came and took it from us you jews who came from france and england and around the world here it is our land and we inherited it from all grandfathers and before them. the israeli government is under pressure by some politicians to launch a large scale military offensive to stop the protestors. is the day ended israeli fighter jets targeted various hamas bases across gaza including this one in the densely populated neighborhood of z. tune. the ministry of health says at least three civilians were injured in this attack. struck at al jazeera gaza i was there as by how to jump june his in west jerusalem has more now on the deescalation violence he says the situation remains tense. israel is not using the term cease fire we've spoken to the israeli army just in the past hour they say that the situation is calm they confirm that

there has been a sation of hostilities and that it is a full civilian routine in israel's border areas with gaza that means basically that the fighting has stopped that the operation is not ongoing but also when you look at how masses statement last evening they also did not use the term cease fire they said that it was a return to an era of calm clearly this is really just going to show that while everybody is trying to ensure that this doesn't escalate into a full fledged conflict there's situation even though it's much calmer this morning does still remain tense and there's a lot of behind the scenes negotiations going on now the israeli army had said that as of yesterday when the operation was ongoing in the gaza strip that sixty sites in three battalion compounds were targeted and that those targets included weapons manufacturing sites a shaft to a tunnel that were going to factory used for underground infrastructure manufacturing talking about the tunnels that israel has repeatedly targeted in the

past we wait to hear more from the israeli government today as far as what exactly is going on as far as if we can consider this to be an actual cease fire and one of the steps that the israeli government will take going forward syrian rebels who surrendered in the south west of the country have begun to arrive in opposition held areas of the north more than fifty buses carrying two thousand three hundred people have reached the town of broken hama province the finances and the families were given safe passage in a surrender deal with the government syrian army forces have since said to terms of the province of could have tripped the deal is a major victory for president bashar al assad whose forces have retaken much of the south laura but merely reports a month of intense government bombardment from southwest syria and the devastation is clear. the military offensive started by government forces backed by russia have recaptured dura in the neighboring province of canapes surrendering control of

tourist city is a major defeat for the opposition. drop the birthplace of the syrian uprising seven years ago from where protests against regime's torture of teenagers spread nationwide. in some areas near syria's border with the israeli occupied golan heights government bombs have been replaced by passes in deal struck last month between the syrian government and rebel fighters anyone who refuses to live under the rule of president bashar assad so we move to the eclipse province in the north the displaced populations which i think this time it's around in two hundred thousand people are unfortunately going to face the same. of. the same conditions faced by other communities who have left the areas in eastern and.

and then hands before and most likely to be taken to. dozens of to space syrians sought refuge from bombing near the its radio golan heights last week but were turned back by israeli border guards. over these people left their homes weeks ago looking for safety trying to protect their families they have been stranded without shelter without assistance without any kind of help for a while and what we are asking for is an in. a long in the fighting a military in egypt able to reach the population. the can a true deal is similar to others elsewhere in syria. buses transporting people from for want to government housing areas and had their windows smashed by rebels besieged in the three. hundreds rebel prisoners a jew to be released in return although some intensely displaced syrians are now

making their way back home it's a small percentage of more than six million who fled since the start of the war nor about a manly al-jazeera protests are being held in several straight in cities calling for the government to stop detaining refugees and offshore camps in the pacific the policy to set aside i'm sick is to know ruin medicine island was reintroduced five years ago one thousand three hundred people living conditions with no chance of settling in australia human rights groups and immigration advocates have consistently criticized the policy. and the correct one church that was besieged by the army has reopened student protesters were taking refuge there last week when gunmen loyal to the president began shooting at them rights groups of criticized president as violent crackdown on anti-government protests it was three hundred people have died in three months of demonstrations government are now roaming the streets of the city west of the network after suppressing protests that many people

living in that city are living in fear as mayor sanchez reports. thirty year old man this had disappeared for three days but on friday his family found his dead body at the coroner's office in the capital money he's father member says cuts to his arms show signs of abuse. and he was tortured he was beaten here in the head in the back and was shot in the chest and leg he didn't have weapons or mortars. his family says he wasn't involved in the protests but he was taken away by security forces. they took him away outside the house but since those an attack going on we couldn't go out. since security and pro-government forces launched a so-called clean up operation in messiah on tuesday to lift barricades

a caravan of heavily armed and masked gunmen have taken control of driving around in vehicles without license plates many businesses and homes here are still closed but the roadblocks have been lifted there are still some tensions here in the neighborhood of money involved as the paramilitary continue to patrol the streets here and what i think of the food vendor one says she's out selling stew for the first time in more than two months she's still afraid to tell you if you best look at it that way because of the situation we can't talk we can't say anything. but we are ok because we are back to work. police say the clean up operation was ordered by president benigno day guy and his wife vice president. says the government confronted protesters to bring back stability after weeks of turmoil. it has been our duty once again to defend peace for everyone it's been

a painful battle because we've confronted an armed conspiracy. violent protests in me that i will have left nearly three hundred people dead. a bastion of rebel resistance since the sandinista revolution thirty nine years ago and also during these months of protests on tuesday's confrontations at least two people were killed but the crackdown is not yet over. their rival of the head of the international monetary fund and argentina has provoked more anti-government protests they fear christine legarde will insist on a sturdy measures and government cuts as a condition of a fifty billion dollars bailout wasn't and government leaders say that alone will provide a safe yes and avoid a repeat of previous financial crises. we're going to weather update next you see right there not only weeks after the election triumph

a ten billion dollar fine for the policy of mexico's president elect we'll tell you why. president trump's former lawyer reveals that he made secret recordings of all the conversations about bush body to the former playboy playmate. hello there it certainly has been very hot for many of us in japan recently and as you can see it is not a great deal of cloud with us at the moment a little bit of drifting over the northern parts i hope i do may see one or two showers from this system but i think clears the way for many of us it will just be another hot one tokyo there up to thirty eight degrees as a maximum on sunday so certainly feeling hot and sticky hit further north we all sing of rain here over the fall in northeastern parts of china that's gradually

edging its way eastwards and look at this swirling mass here over shanghai that is all cycling that's working its way towards the west and it looks like that's going to hit very very close to shanghai as we head through sunday and then it will move inland of course once it's inland it will have lost its energy source so it will disintegrate fairly readily but still it's likely to bring us a period of very heavy rain that is likely to bring a sim flooding so there's that storm system then as it makes its way into shanghai there on sunday further south of also got a circulation here this one is the remains of it all of a storm that was hit doesn't look like it's going to develop into anything too sinister but certainly it's going to enhance the rains across this region a region that's already seen flooding and so there is likely to be more in the way of severe weather from monday to. the pressure is on the fifteen thousand people posing an imminent threat to israeli

snipers yes they were horrifying but it's mainly diplomats hamas people not palestinian you'll get a right no no they are the same thing they're never done they are sending them to die it's a cultural traditions and when they come and attack us it's a war zone he was attacking his son goes head to head with danny and what israel is doing is deliberately choosing to slaughter houses and al-jazeera. again the top stories this hour on how to steer a palestinian factions have agreed to return to calm with israel after to have violence along the border fence between gaza and israel a hamas spokesperson says that egypt and the un mediated the deal for palestinians

at an israeli soldier died friday. syrian rebels who surrendered in the south west of the country have begun to arrive in opposition held areas of the north more than fifty buses carrying. carrying them have reached the town of la broke in hama province to find just the families were given safe passage and a surrender deal with the government. of the nicaraguan church that was besieged by the army and the narco has reopened student protesters were taking refuge inside the catholic church last week when gunmen loyal to the president began shooting at . mexico's president elect is being condemned for his defiant response to a ten million dollars fine imposed on his party for violating campaign finance laws that penalty on andras manuel lopez obrador as policy was imposed on weapons. john holden reports now from mexico city. president elect andres manuel lopez obrador

ran and won a landslide victory on a promise to eradicate corruption but already his party. has been fined around ten million dollars for regularities during the campaign the national electorate insitute penalized the party for setting up a trust fund for earthquake victims it says the fund shouldn't have been set up by a political party and the way it was paid in part with a big anonymous cash payment was also against the law corruption experts we've talked to said that the judgment of the electoral authorities seems based on sound evidence what's particularly worrying they say is lopez obrador his reaction to it he's called it a bio active verb ange by authorities after his win now this is a pleader who's opponents have often said that he doesn't respect the country's often severely flawed institutions and attacking the country's electorate authority in this way before he's even in power is not going to do anything to dispel those

criticisms donald trump's former lawyer is reported to have secretly taped discussions with him about hush money for an alleged affair the new york times says that the f.b.i. seized the recording during a raid on michael cohen's office he's being investigated for tax fraud and breaking election campaign laws trump has denied paying former playboy model karen mcdougal his current lawyer confirms that payments were discussed with cohen but says that they were never made our white house correspondent kimberly health reports from washington. this recording seems to reveal the president discussing with his personal attorney michael cohen the payment of house money in the form of check fully one hundred fifty thousand dollars this is problematic for the president given that he has denied he ever had an affair with karen mcdougal the playboy model the white house saying this was fake news and that the president never had such a relationship the recording seems to contradict that statement of course the president

at the time of this alleged affair also married with an infant son certainly problematic on a personal level so this really brings up the question of what the president knew and when he knew it it's also a concern given the fact that there is a separate investigation that is ongoing in all of this and that is the one being conducted by robert muller the special counsel well these two investigations are separate the one into michael cohen trumps personal attorney and the one into whether or not there was russian interference in the twenty sixteen u.s. election and whether the trump campaign colluded with russia with this information is shared it could be problematic for the president given the fact that if michael cohen in order to save himself from the charges he is currently facing he could decide to cooperate with the special counsel and that could certainly be risky for donald trump as the united states threatens war terms of salt imports china's president is pushing

a message of free trade xi jinping is about to begin his first official tour of west africa among the stops is sun ago where china is the largest foreign investor i was there as nicholas hawke reports from the capital dhaka. until two years ago shimla and was a rice farmer in henan province in northern china now he's making the final touches for the you know gratian city goes first wrestling stadium. is due to be open on saturday by china's president xi jinping who's making his first visit to west africa. no detail is being spared for his arrival everything has to be perfect for time and you'll learn a former restaurant owner from sichuan who is now a mason. thank you we've been working here for years we're proud of what we've done and we want people in china to know what we've built here it's more than just a stadium with one point six billion dollars in investment the chinese government says it's senegal's largest foreign investor and with it has come an influx of

chinese migrants who've made to carve their home this is where they live chinatown is right on the capital's main avenue most migrants come from china's poor provinces after working in construction some set up shop selling chinese goods descending lease customers. i have been living here fifteen years my system my aunts my brother in law all own a shop around the corner senegal is my country too. although there are no government migration statistics as to its range from two hundred fifty thousand to two million chinese living in africa who are not all welcomed dozens of chinese vendors have been killed in the past five years no arrests have been made. with so many chinese riot growing choosing to make this place their home there's a. t. chinese sentiment not just here in senegal but throughout africa and so china's

government is now on a charm offensive trying to win over hearts and minds in countries it's investing in. this is one of forty newly opened confucius institutes in africa here the chinese state offers classes in the martial art tai cheat and making green tea as well as mandarin language lessons for adults and children. i want to see the great wall of china eat their food and speak their language because my mom says it will be useful one day she didn't bring is due to sign an additional agreements with senegal's president mikey cell including the first chinese garment factories in west africa promising thousands of new jobs for both senegalese workers and chinese migrants alike. nicholas hawke al-jazeera the car a british man poisoned by the nerve agent while the child has been released from hospital charlie rowley was admitted three weeks ago along with his partner she died and a murder inquiry has begun in souls for a former russian spy saga script and his daughter yulia poised tidal

waves of plastic and de brézé a washing up on the coast of the dominican republic conservationists say that they've already removed sixty tons of rubbish from the beach to the capital santo domingo soldiers are being scrambled to help because this so much to clean up. an intense heat wave in sweden coupled with a raechel drought helping to fuel the worst wildfires there in decades government leaders have appealed for help from other countries to fight dozens of blazes large areas of forest have been torched and smoke warnings issued firefighters say the risk of more fires is extremely high emergency imports of animal food are being ordered to prevent farm animals from starvation. reeling and. the government is ready to take all necessary decisions and supply all needed resources our duties to support all agencies so that they have what they need to

get the fires under control and therefore the government is following the seventh close every minute every day to make sure the agencies have the resources they need a trade dispute between libya and tunisia has halted cross border traffic for the last ten days to dizzy and traders set up roadblocks to stop libyans from reaching the capital tunis after tunisians were banned from taking libyan goods across the border. hold of the one that reports. the road to the russes deal terminal is almost deserted libyan security officers say only libyans seeking medical treatment are allowed to cross the border into tunisia the border gate has been closed by tunisian customs officers for ten days now dozens of trucks have been turned away some carrying food others transporting claimable liquids local tunisian traders are preventing libyans from entering the capital tunis by

setting up roadblocks between date and being geared down city that is in this pans to a decision by libya's customs agents to benton asians from take in libyan goods libya's government says libyan exports to harm the economy libyan border officers say they close the border why diplomats in the foreign ministries of both countries work to find a solution. before. we have to start the stop libyans from moving into the side just to protect them that's because they've been abused there and it's an easy mouth already have been sending them back to going home aren't sure if they will be able to return to libya or he can hardly carry all his belongings and rest is for a while. before his exit he cannot hide his frustration. confessional. i know i might not be able to get back to my work in libya but i'm very sick and i

have to go home to get medical treatment what can i do i have no other choice. during the past few years the russes day of terminal has been closed several times due to unrest on the tunisian side of the border that affects many people especially tunisian traders but many libyan travelers here say the. show doing enough to ensure their safety libyans returning home from the capital tunis have his two days deter khalifa bushido was planning to spend every occasion with his family in tunis but was turned back he says they had to make a one hundred and fifty kilometers detour to alternative border crossing at wise in . between. back after we left the tunisian customs gate locals stopped us then the authorities there asked us to wait we were stuck a whole night in the car it was terrible there us is deal terminal crossing is

a lifeline for tunisians whole make their living by trading across the border and vice versa for libyans too until the dispute is resolved many travelers would likely have only a one way trip home. on the libyan tunisian border vigils have been held for the seventeen american tourists who drowned when a so-called duck boat sank during a storm the amphibious bus which becomes a boat was overpowered by waves on table rock lake in missouri mine of the dead are from the same family some passengers say the captain told them not to wear life jackets. the green party in the united states is hoping to capitalize on voter frustration with donald trump and other politicians in washington candidates for the midterm elections in november and making their case at the party's annual conference our correspondents kristen salumi is there. she is the woman democrats

love to hate many believe jill stein cost hillary clinton the election in two thousand and sixteen arguing the green party candidate diverted crucial votes in swing states that nearly went for now president donald trump recent revelations have only fueled her critics we know from the moller investigation that the russians not only took out ads on behalf of donald trump but also on behalf of you are you worried about russian intervention in the elections one facebook ad with the kind of you know among i think it was three thousand ads if i'm not mistaken that were attributed to this russian internet agency those ads cost one hundred thousand dollars compared to know donald trump got six billion dollars worth of free air time from corporate t.v. why because he was quote damn good for their bottom line according to the c.e.o. of c.b.s.

for example so you know if you're looking for intervention in the election or interference how about the interference of big corporate media that had billions of dollars in free airtime to throw around for candidates that benefited their bottom line but then there is this photo of her sitting next to russian president vladimir putin and former trump national security advisor michael flynn at a moscow dinner in two thousand and fifteen i was in russia to talk about a piece of offensive in the middle east to talk about nuclear weapons and to talk about climate change and ending fossil fuel use this was not selling out to the russians i did not receive funding i wasn't paid by russia they didn't even pay my way. and as greens put forward a slate of candidates running for congress in the mid-term elections she dismisses concerns that their progressive platform. divided opposition to the party of trump

as democrats work to retake control of the house of representatives people are not buying into trump hating and russia baiting that's really the extent of the democratic party generating i'm pleased at its establishment its leadership people are ready for something different and the better alternative stein says is green christensen leamy al-jazeera salt lake city utah. it is good to have you with us hello adrian figure here in the headlines this hour al-jazeera palestinian factions have agreed to return to calm with israel after a day of violence along the border fence between gaza and israel a hamas spokesperson says that egypt and the un mediated for palestinians and israeli soldiers died on friday syrian rebels who surrendered in the south west of the country have begun to arrive in opposition held areas of the north more than

fifty buses carrying two thousand three hundred people have reached the town of brook in hama province the fighters and their families were given safe passage in a surrender deal with the government the deal is a major victory for president bashar al assad whose forces of retaken much of the south protests are being held in several australian cities calling for the government to stop detaining refugees in offshore camps in the pacific the policy to send asylum seekers to nauru and manus island was reintroduced five years ago one thousand three hundred people living there in poor conditions with no chance of settling in australia human rights groups and immigration advocates have consistently criticised the policy and the correct one church that was besieged by the army in managua has reopened student protesters were taking refuge inside the catholic church last week when gunmen loyal to president daniel ortega began to shoot at them. vigils have been held for the seventeen american tourists who

drowned when a so-called duck boat sank during a storm the amphibious vessel which becomes a boat bus rather which becomes a boat was overpowered by waves on table rock lake in zurich mind of the dead from the same family some of the thirty one passengers on board so the captain told them not to wear life jackets waves of plastic and de brézé have washed up on the coast of the dominican republic conservationists say they've already removed sixty tons of rubbish at a beach near the capital santo domingo but there is so much waste that the military has been scrambled to help the cleanup as the headlines the news continues here on al-jazeera right after today's inside story next.

the heat in iraq it's another. violent protests in the spread north all the way to the capital. what's fueling the this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program. security has been tightened in. iraq because more on to government protests are expected several iraqis have already been killed protesting against frequent electricity cuts clean water shortages and lack of job opportunities security forces firing tear gas and water cannon struggle

to quell.